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Former Tony! Toni! Tone! member says his latest CD isn't a throwback, though he has taken a '60s soul approach M usical time travel seems to thrill Raphael Saadiq. On his last album, 2004's overlooked Ray Ray , the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter-producer went back to the blaxploitation era. The loose concept album positioned him as a funky fly guy whose songs seduced the ladies and ...
Fists and Starts: Nowlin is poised to launch his film career. (Darrow Montgomery) Work Is Hell Goth? Stuck in an office job? She can help. Posted: August 20, 2008
Two of the greats of soul, R&B, recently died within five days of each other. Isaac Hayes, as close to a one-man definition of soul music for the late 1960s and early 1970s as one gets, died Aug. 10. He was 65.
When a character played by Keenen Ivory Wayans finally begins to fulfill his destiny as a black superhero in "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka," he gets the best advice possible from his mentor, played by Bernie Casey. Every good hero, Casey says, needs a theme song. The guy who knows the most about that could have delivered the line himself, if his character in the movie hadn't just accidentally shot ...
"Tropic Thunder" star Robert Downey Jr. says his father's '60s blaxploitation film inspired his satiric performance.
When I moved to Portland five years ago from Washington, D.C., a few things struck me quickly. First, I saw few people of color, of whatever color or mix of colors.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Isaac Hayes, the pioneering singer, songwriter and musician whose relentless “Theme From Shaft” won Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday afternoon, the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office said. He was 65.
In a role bridging decades of progress and regress on the big screen, Robert Downey Jr. is an Aussie actor obsessed with being black in Ben Stiller's studio-satirizing movie within a movie. WHAT IS going on in the zeitgeist when an African American is poised to become president and Robert Downey Jr. is in blackface? In the new comedy " Tropic Thunder," Downey plays actor Kirk Lazarus, a ...
By now you probably know that Tropic Thunder stars some of Hollywood's biggest stars — from Jack Black to Ben Stiller, ...
Celebrating the life of Black Moses through his music. August 14, 2008 - Few men in music have had as much impact as Isaac Hayes. His iconic score for the Gordon Parks directed, Richard Roundtree star vehicle and blaxploitation classic Shaft not only won an Academy Award, but became a staple of the orchestrated Funk/Soul genre of which Hayes was the grandmaster.
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